Steve Lehto wrote a book about Chrysler's Turbine Car program from the 1950s-1970s. He was able to get the book published with help from comedian Jay Leno, a noted car enthusiast. Lehto interviewed over 20 former engineers from the program to include unpublished details in the book. The Turbine Car used a jet engine and was capable of running on alternative fuels. However, factors like emissions regulations and the 1973 oil crisis led Chrysler to cancel the program. Lehto will be speaking about the Turbine Car at a classic car event where one of the few remaining running examples will be displayed.

1. BY KURT ANTHONY KRUG
Legal News
Steve Lehto repeatedly directs the credit of
the publication of his book, “Chrysler’s Tur-
bine Car: The Rise and Fall of
Detroit’s Coolest Creation”—a
2011 Michigan Notable Book—
to comedian and car buff Jay
Leno.
“Car books are notoriously
hard to get published,” said Lehto,
48, of Grand Blanc, a lawyer in
private practice in Royal Oak who
teaches at the University of Detroit
Mercy School of Law.
He is the author of two other
books—“Michigan’s Columbus: The
Life of Douglass Houghton” and
“Death’s Door: the Truth Behind Michigan’s
Largest Mass Murder”—both of which are
also notable books.
Lehto will be speaking at the Glenmoor
Gathering of Significant Automobiles at the
Glenmoor Country Club in Canton, Ohio on
Friday, Sept. 16. The event runs Sept. 16-18.
David Kleptz, son of car collector Frank
Kleptz, will be there with his father’s
Turbine car. According to Lehto,
this is one of four running Turbine
cars left.
“Chrysler’s Turbine Car” chron-
icles the invention of Chrysler’s
turbine car—which contained a jet
engine—beginning in 1953 and
ending in 1978. According to
Lehto, engineers implemented
jet propulsion technology into
automobiles, creating a car
“capable running on tequila if
need be.”
“Today, with the current oil crisis and
increasing concerns about pollution, a car
with a jet engine would be in high demand…
had it not previously been destroyed without
explanation,” said Lehto.
Lehto’s older brother Rick works at Walled
Lake-based Williams International, which
makes small turbine engines with Bill Carry
(who is on the cover of “Chrysler’s Turbine
Car”), one of the turbine car’s engineers.
“It dawned on me that suddenly I have this
pool of resources to interview these guys who
worked on the turbine car,” explained Lehto.
“I could do an oral history and get the infor-
mation from the guys who worked in the pro-
gram. I interviewed about 20 to 30 guys, who
are still in this area and were engineers in the
program back in the day. I got a lot of infor-
mation that had never been published before.
It came together really, really well.”
Per Lehto’s research, three factors killed
the program: tailpipe standards, the OPEC oil
embargo, and Chrysler’s financial troubles.
In the early 1970s, the federal government
regulated tailpipe emissions. At the same
time, the OPEC oil embargo occurred, forcing
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LANSING (AP) — The Michigan Court of
Appeals has upheld first-degree murder con-
victions against an Oakland County man for
stabbing his parents to death.
Mark Ott of White Lake Township was
convicted in the fatal stabbings last year. The
bodies of 57-year-olds Barbara and Michael
Ott were discovered in February 2008 at their
home in White Lake Township, about 30
miles northwest of Detroit.
On Wednesday, the appeals court affirmed
the jury’s decision to find Ott guilty but men-
tally ill. Ott is serving the mandatory sentence
of life without parole.
The appeals court vacated Ott’s convictions
on two counts of second-degree murder based
on double jeopardy principles. The ruling says
double jeopardy doesn’t allow multiple pun-
ishments for the same offense.
PONTIAC (AP) — ESPN analyst and for-
mer NBA player Jalen Rose was released
early yesterday from a suburban Detroit jail
after serving time for drunken driving.
Rose, 38, was released from the Oakland
County Jail after 16 days behind bars, the
sheriff ’s department told The Associated
Press. He reported to jail Aug. 2 to begin a
20-day sentence from a judge who’s known
for tough punishments.
An email seeking comment was sent early
yesterday to a lawyer for Rose.
When he pleaded guilty in May to driving
while intoxicated, Rose told the judge he
drank six martinis before crashing his SUV in
March along a snowy road in West Bloom-
field Township. He apologized after his sen-
tencing.
Just hours after hearing his sentence,
police said Rose was given a speeding ticket
in the Detroit suburb of Clawson. Rose was
clocked going 46 mph in a 25-mph zone, and
was given a citation for going at least 10 mph
over the limit, police said.
After playing at the University of Michigan
as part of the Fab Five, Rose played for six
teams during a 13-year NBA career, including
six years with the Indiana Pacers. He current-
ly works for ESPN as a pro basketball analyst.
PONTIAC (AP) — Authorities in south-
east Michigan say they’ve seized an estimated
$150 million worth of heroin and cocaine dur-
ing a bust earlier this month.
The Oakland County sheriff’s department
and the federal Drug Enforcement Adminis-
tration on Wednesday announced details of
last Friday’s bust in Pontiac. Authorities say a
search of a home found 69 kilograms of hero-
in and 10.5 kilograms of cocaine.
The agencies say it’s the largest quantity of
heroin ever discovered in Michigan. Sheriff
Mike Bouchard says the sheer quantity of
drugs is “startling.”
Authorities say a traffic stop earlier in the
day turned up 2 kilograms of suspected
cocaine and led investigators to get a search
warrant for the home. During the search of the
home they found more than $560,000 in cash
along with the heroin and cocaine.
BY SHEILA PURSGLOVE
Legal News
As a kid, Tony Dillof dreamed of becoming
an inventor. Then a life as a beach bum looked
appealing. A career as a mathematician then
loomed large as a goal.
“I think, however,
that law was always in
the back of my mind,”
he says with a smile.
And now, as an
associate professor at
Wayne State Universi-
ty Law School, Dillof
shares his expertise on
Torts, Criminal Law,
Criminal Procedure,
Civil Rights and
Jurisprudence, topics that complement his
scholarly interest in exploring forms of justice
that underlie our civil, criminal, and constitu-
tional law regimes.
A native of Rye, in the suburbs of New
York City, Dillof earned a bachelor’s degree in
philosophy, cum laude, from Harvard Univer-
sity.
“Philosophy captured my imagination,” he
says. “I found the questions posed to be intrin-
sically interesting and I enjoyed the challenge
of trying to think things through.”
He went on to earn his J.D. and LL.M from
Columbia University School of Law where he
was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and senior
editor of the law review.
“I thought law combined the intellectual
satisfactions of philosophy and the drama,
consequence and messiness of the real world,”
he says. “Law seemed to provide the opportu-
nity to put theories and thoughts to work to
change things for the better.
“Criminal law seemed the area of law
where the stakes were highest, and procedural
and substantive issues the most interesting.”
After working at the Center for Law in the
Public Interest in Los Angeles, he clerked for
Judge William C. Canby on the U.S. Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals.
He then served as special legal assistant for
the Immigration Law Task Force of the Amer-
ican Civil Liberties Union, where he was
responsible for drafting a lawyers’ guide to the
Immigration Reform and Control Act.
He later joined the New York City Law
Department, Office of the Corporation Coun-
sel where, as a member of the General Litiga-
tion Division, he handled a wide range of civil
matters including civil rights, employment,
education, homeless issues, and class-action
litigation.
In the Environmental Division, he was
involved in high-profile lawsuits involving
challenges to New York City’s recycling,
solid waste disposal, and sewage treatment
Steve
Lehto
(right) was
in good
company
with come-
dian Jay
Leno, late
night talk
show star
and self-
admitted
car fancier.
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Chrysler’s Turbine Car
The Oakland County Bar Association
(OCBA) conducted its annual golf
outing on Monday, Aug. 1, at the
Birmingham Country Club. Happy to
welcome golfers to the event were
(left to right) Golf Committee mem-
ber Lynn Capp Sirich and Committee
Chair Rob Morad, both with Miller
Canfield, and Committee member
Deborah Baughman with Jaffe, Raitt,
Heuer, & Weiss PC.
Photos by John Meiu
Tee time
with OCBA
For video of this event, visit www.legalnews.com/motion and click on “videos.”
For additional photos,
see today’s Page 3.
Golfers head out for a day on the green. Matthew Lund of Pepper Hamilton LLP.
Criminal law
expert believes
in the value of
‘live and learn’
Drawing on data from the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, the Thomas M. Cooley Law
School recently announced preliminary
results from a ten-year study of employment
in the legal profession, showing that lawyers
had among the lowest unemployment rates
of all management and professional occupa-
tions in 2010.
According to 2010 data reported in the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Pop-
ulation Survey, the national unemployment
rate was 9.6% for all occupations, while the
unemployment rate for lawyers was 1.5%.
The vast majority of management and pro-
fessional occupations had higher unemploy-
ment rates, and many had unemployment
rates that were much higher, for example:
• Astronomers and physicists had double
the unemployment rate of lawyers.
• Computer software engineers and
accountants had more than triple the lawyer
rate.
• Environmental engineers had more than
four times the lawyer rate.
• News analysts, reporters, and commenta-
tors had more than five times the lawyer rate.
• Advertising and promotion managers
had nearly six times the lawyer rate.
• Architects had nearly seven times the
lawyer rate.
Among the ten categories of management
and professional occupations established by
the Bureau, legal occupations had a com-
bined unemployment rate of 2.7%, the sec-
ond-lowest rate. Health care and technical
occupations topped the list with a slightly
lower combined rate of 2.5%.
Bureau data also showed that between
Study shows high employment rate for lawyers
(See DILLOF, Page 2)
(See LEHTO, Page 2)
(See EMPLOYMENT, Page 2)
Appeals court upholds
conviction in parents’
2008 knife slaying
Bust nets $150 million
worth of drugs in Pontiac
Jalen Rose wraps up
his jail time for DUI
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